New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is this CCPA-related spam?

Ask HN: Is this CCPA-related spam?
3 by petecooper | 1 comments on Hacker News.
I am involved with a small-scale open source CMS project. We've had a recent uptick of incoming emails concerning CCPA, with a similar boilerplate: ==8<== To Whom It May Concern: My name is [REDCATED], and I am a resident of Norfolk, Virginia. I have a few questions about your process for responding to California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) data access requests: Would you process a CCPA data access request from me even though I am not a resident of California? Do you process CCPA data access requests via email, a website, or telephone? If via a website, what is the URL I should go to? What personal information do I have to submit for you to verify and process a CCPA data access request? What information do you provide in response to a CCPA data access request? To be clear, I am not submitting a data access request at this time. My questions are about your process for when I do submit a request. Thank you in advance for your answers to these questions. If there is a better contact for processing CCPA requests regarding [REDACTED].com, I kindly ask that you forward my request to them. I look forward to your reply without undue delay and at most within 45 days of this email, as required by Section 1798.130 of the California Civil Code. Sincerely, [REDACTED] ==8<== I don't recognise any of the names (we're a small project, we know a lot of the users between us) and they're all using small / anonymous email providers. The emails arrive at an advertised email address, so it's not obviously a test to check for a warm human…or is it? A reply is sent with a link to our privacy policy, and a clarification that we don't store any user data outside of forum user accounts, and answers to the questions. It's a copy-paste job to send a reply, and it's done promptly, but I'm confused as to what's triggered the influx of emails. Am I missing something?